Who’s Done It?
Join over 500 Cal entrepreneurs and faculty who have made the Pledge.
Simon Ru
’03, M.B.A. ’11
Founder and CEO, UpNest (acquired by Realtor.com)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022
Zubin Nagarvala
’02
Founder, Upward.net (acquired by Jobcase)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
Lisa Guerra
PhD ’96
Partner, SV2; Co-Founder, Victrio (acquired by Verint)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022
Lauri Kibby
M.B.A. ’86
Co-Founder and CFO, Kings Garden; Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Endourage
Vikram Sreekanti
’15, Ph.D. ’20
Founder & CEO, Spiral Labs
James Tong
’09
Co-Founder, Nomi
Lizi Feng
’13
Co-Founder, DrVigo and Uni Precision, Inc.
Giles Templeman
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto
Shihui Mao
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto
Santiago Freyria
M.B.A. ’20
Founder, ExVivoGen
Linda Chow
M.B.A.’19
Co-Founder and CEO, CaringDr
Lindsey Hoell
Co-founder and CEO, Dispatch Goods
Yao-Chieh “Jeff” Hu
M.Eng ’20
Co-Founder and CEO, Turing Chain
Sol Eun
M.Eng ’20
Founder and CEO, UI Flow
Matthew Cooper
M.B.A. ’10
Founder and CEO, Carmenta Bioscience (acquired by Progenity)
Ryan Chan
’13
Founder and CEO, UpKeep
Farshad Ghaffari
’99
Co-Founder, Entreda (acquired by Smarsh)
Zahid Hussain
Division Deputy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Erin Mastopietro
’10
Co-Founder, Dope Dog
Michael Olson
’91, M.S. ’92
Co-Founder and CSO, Cloudera
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
Angela Lau
M.B.A. ’16
Co-Founder, Seventh AI
Ludwig Schoenack
M.B.A. ’19
Co-Founder, Drivekyte
Wesley Jackson
’00, M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’06
Founder and CEO, Valitor Inc
Atanas Bakalov
M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, Knowdeon
Rahul Deedwania
’10
Co-Founder, BreakoutIQ
Amy Fan
M.B.A. ’19, M.P.H. ’19
Co-Founder, Twentyeight Health
Ankur Nagpal
’09
Founder & CEO, Teachable
Jessica Green
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’01
Co-Founder and CEO of Phylagen Inc
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
M.B.A. ’16
Founder, SwiftMotion
Will Huang
’17, M.Eng. ’18
Co-Founder and CEO, Pengram
Andy Yang
’00
CEO, Indiegogo
Art Amador
M.B.A. ’16
Founder and COO, EquBot
Jeremy Hammer
’19
Founder, CatalistX
Emily Walling
M.B.A. ’08
Head of Marketing, Portfolia
Saswat Mishra
E.M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, California Memory Technologies Inc
David Pastewka
’12
CEO, Drapr; Co-Founder, Twindom
John McMahon
M.S. ’72, M.B.A. ’73
Chief Marketing Officer, Allium Vitalis
Benjamin Chang
’88
Glint, Head of Information Security & Compliance
Jason Bellet
’14
Co-Founder, Eko
Peter Wysinski
’14
Co-Founder, AxleHire; Co-Founder & CEO, kSense
Kevin Ubilla
’16
Founder, Omni Astrobiotics
Matthew Sinks
’15
Program China, UnBank Ventures
Shawn Tsao
’11
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square)
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
Joyce Arellano-Bravo
’98
Co-Founder, WeSolve
Dinesh Kumar
M.B.A. ’17
COO, Promaxo
Dave Alpert
’78, M.Arch. ’86
CEO and Co-Founder, Geopogo
Jason Wang
’09
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square); Venture Partner, Beluga Capital
Laurie Peterson
M.B.A. ’11
Founder, Build & Imagine (acquired); Founder and CEO, Inkbrite
Dhawal Mujumdar
M.I.M.S. ’11
Co-Founder, Polymorph (acquired by Walmart)
Charles Huang
’93
Co-Founder, RedOctane (acquired by Activision); Co-Founder, Indigo 7
Pledge fulfilled in 2014
Juan Pablo Ferrer
’01
Co-founder, Mevoked (acquired by WellBrain)
Richard Din
’08
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square)
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
James Brear
’89
President & CEO, Veriflow (acquired by VMware)
Kevin Blake
M.B.A. ’17
Founder and Managing Partner, Sierra Verde Capital
Paul Yeh
’01
Partner, Conductive Ventures
Weijie “Claire” Li
’14
Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest
Nelson Hyde Chick
’94
Founder and Chief Adrenaline Officer, Foil Flyer
Prayag Narula
M.I.M.S. ’12
Founder and President, LeadGenius Inc
Rishi Chopra
’02
Software Engineer, IBM
Niket Desai
’09
Founder PADCo; Co-Founder, Punchd (acquired by Google)
Richard “Leke” Raji
M.Eng. ’19
Founder, Mistove
Bradford Crist
M.B.A. ’19
Product Manager, Volta Charging
Christian Keil
M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, d.rect; Co-Founder, The Tuesday Company
Luc Ibata
Founder & CEO, WeSolve World Inc.
Kenny To
’08
Founding Engineer, Rubrik Inc
Josh Appleman
M.I.M.S. ’16
Founder, Tellaport
Kevin Chou
’02
Chairman, Forte Labs and Gen.G esports; Co-Founder, Kabam
Pledge fulfilled in 2015
Jeffery Alvarez
M.B.A. ’14
Vice President, Product & Operations, Potrero Medical; Co-Founder, Naya Health
Deepak Gupta
Managing Partner, Blue Bears Ventures
Bastien Beauchamp
Co-Founder and CEO, !important safety
Mark Velednitsky
M.S. ’16
Founder and CEO, MultiMeet
Amanda Pouchot
’08
Co-Founder and CEO, Together10; Co-Founder, Levo
Caroline Winnett
M.B.A. ’90
Executive Director, SkyDeck
Rajiv Appana
M.B.A. ’13
Co-Founder, SpinWheel Inc
Tomas Campos
’00
CEO and Co-Founder, Spinwheel Inc
Harsha Raghavan
’94
Managing Partner, Convergent Finance LLP
Charlene Son Rigby
M.B.A. ’00
Chief Business Officer, Fabric Genomics
Ezra Roizen
M.B.A. ’04
General Manager, Advsr LLC